Today's Pix - Monday, September 4th, 2006

[Switek]

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Debris flies from an explosion set off intentionally by Pakistani commandos September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Pakistani martial arts instructors display their skills at a parade ground September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/*****

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Pakistani soldiers wearing UN blue berets take part in a drill at a parade ground on September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has thousands of troops taking part in UN military operations in Congo. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Pakistani martial arts instructors display their skills at a parade ground September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: A Pakistani army commander holds his riding crop while watching militay maneuvers on September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers were preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Pakistani commandos abseil from an army helicopter during a military maneuver on September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Pakistani army soldiers watch as paratroopers land at a parade ground on September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The troops are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: A Pakistani army motorcycle team rides in formation during a rehersal at a parade ground on September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: An assistant polishes an officer's boot as the Pakistani presidential guard prepares to begin maneuvers at a parade ground on September 4, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6 which is commemorated across Pakistan. Pakistan currently has some 80,000 troops stationed along the Afghan border supporting the U.S. led war on terror. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Decorative swords are displayed on September 4, 2006 at a military parade ground in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistani army soldiers are preparing for Defense Day on September 6, commemorated across Pakistan. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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LONDON - SEPTEMBER 04: Singer Pete Doherty leaves Thames Valley Magistrates Court surrounded by the media on September 4, 2006 in London. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/***** Images)

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LONDON - SEPTEMBER 04: Singer Pete Doherty leaves Thames Valley Magistrates Court surrounded by the media on September 4, 2006 in London. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/***** Images)

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AMMAN, JORDAN - SEPTEMBER 4: Jordanian policeman secure the area around the Roman amphitheater in the center of Amman where foreign tourists were attacked by a gunman on September 4, 2006 in Amman, Jordan. One British tourist was killed with six other western holidaymakers and a Jordanian policeman wounded at the Roman amphitheatre in the centre of the Jordanian capital when a gunman opened fire in what officials have called a "terror" attack. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/***** Images)

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AMMAN, JORDAN - SEPTEMBER 04: Jordan's Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit (2nd L) visits a wounded tourist in the hospital on September 4, 2006 in Amman, Jordan. One British tourist was killed and six other western holidaymakers and a Jordanian policeman were wounded in the centre of the Jordanian capital when a gunman opened fired at the Roman amphitheatre in what officials have called a "terror" attack. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/***** Images)

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[Switek]

If I find better pix of Leclercs I'll post them

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Saint-Cyr-en-Val, FRANCE: A woman looks at French Leclerc tanks of the 12th Cuirassiers Regiment based in Olivet rolling to the Saint-Cyr-en-Val station, near the central city of Orleans, 04 September 2006, to be loaded for their deployment in Lebanon as a major part of the UN force being assembled there. The units are part of a French contingent that will ultimately number 2,000 soldiers who will form the core of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon along with 2,450 Italian troops. AFP PHOTO ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/***** Images)

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Saint-Cyr-en-Val, FRANCE: French Leclerc tanks of the 12th Cuirassiers Regiment based in Olivet roll to the Saint-Cyr-en-Val station, near the central city of Orleans, 04 September 2006, to be loaded for their deployment in Lebanon as a major part of the UN force being assembled there. The units are part of a French contingent that will ultimately number 2,000 soldiers who will form the core of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon along with 2,450 Italian troops. AFP PHOTO ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/***** Images)

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Saint-Cyr-en-Val, FRANCE: French Leclerc tanks of the 12th Cuirassiers Regiment based in Olivet load on a train, 04 September 2006 at the Saint-Cyr-en-Val station, near the central city of Orleans, for their deployment in Lebanon as a major part of the UN force being assembled there. The units are part of a French contingent that will ultimately number 2,000 soldiers who will form the core of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon along with 2,450 Italian troops. AFP PHOTO ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/***** Images)

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Zagreb, CROATIA: Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and his Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader inspect the honour guard prior to their meeting in Zagreb, 04 September 2006. Rasmussen, who is on a visit to Zagreb, said Croatia's future membership of the European Union and NATO could help to stabilise the Balkan region. AFP PHOTO/ - (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)

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Athens, GREECE: South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun (L) lays a wreath at the monument to the Unknown Soldier in Athens 04 September 2006. Roh is in Greece on a three-day official visit. AFP PHOTO / Louisa Gouliamaki (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/***** Images)

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Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA: Pa Nguon Teang (L), deputy director of the US-funded Cambodian Center For Human Rights (CCHR), and Ou Virak (C), the group's spokesman, walk near a truck carrying a black box which people could write down reports of corruption in Phnom Penh, 04 September 2006. Cambodian police stopped a leading rights group from launching its black box campaign against rampant corruption in the impoverished country, rights activists and officials said. It was reported that the truck was taken to a local police station in Phnom Penh's Tuol Kok district along with its driver and the black box. AFP PHOTO/ TANG CHHIN SOTHY (Photo credit should read TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP/***** Images)

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Kathmandu, NEPAL: Riot police stand guard as hundreds of riot police were deployed in Nepal's capital after Maoists threatened a "revolution" and bussed in several thousand injured rebel veterans for a meeting in Kathmandu, 04 September 2006. Maoist leader Prachand ''has called for street protests so of course we have beefed up the security on the streets'', a government minister said. AFP PHOTO/DEVENDRA M SINGH (Photo credit should read DEVENDRA M SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

[JVeld]

Good pics today , thanks ......
I thought that 9mm ARs were for the civilian market !

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[somedude]

If I find better pix of Leclercs I'll post them




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Well, that's the most interesting riot gear I've seen. They remind me of walking Venetian blinds.

[goat89]

Nice pics! I wish safety and Vigilance to the French.

[thatguy96]

Good pics today , thanks ......
I thought that 9mm ARs were for the civilian market !

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Far from it, the first 9mm ARs were introduced by Colt to try and snatch up the market share that at the time was largely going to the Uzi and MP5.

[D-gin]

Again nice photos from Switek, Thanks my friend.....

[Switek]

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Kathmandu, NEPAL: Riot police stand behind barbed wire during a rally for the family members of people, who disapppeared since 1996 during the insurgency, at Bhadrakali in Kathmandu, 04 September 2006. Hundreds of riot police were deployed in Nepal's capital after Maoists threatened a "revolution" and bussed in several thousand injured rebel veterans for a meeting. Maoist leader Prachand ''has called for street protests so of course we have beefed up the security on the streets'', a government minister said. AFP PHOTO/DEVENDRA M SINGH (Photo credit should read DEVENDRA M SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

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KFAR KILA, LEBANON: Israeli workers install a new fence at the Israeli-Lebanon border outside the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Kila, 04 September 2006. Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon is proceeding well and the border area should soon be under the control of the Lebanese army, the commander of UN troops in the country said today. AFP PHOTO THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/***** Images)

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Bint Jbeil, LEBANON: A UNIFIL Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) patrolling in a convoy passes by a poster of Musa Sadr, the Lebanese Shiite Muslem cleric who founded the Amal movement before vanishing in 1978, around the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, 04 September 2006. The Israeli army will have completed its withdrawal from all southern Lebanon in 10 days, a senior military source told AFP today. AFP PHOTO THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/***** Images)

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Srifa, LEBANON: An Italian soldier with UNIFIL stands guard on a tank outside a military base near Borj Qalauay in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa 04 September 2006. More Italian troops deployed yesterday in Lebanon as part of the first major reinforcement in nearly 30 years of the UN mission there, to monitor a truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. A convoy of about 30 vehicles including soldiers, fuel tankers, amphibious vehicles and containers, set out for a logistics base to complete the initial deployment from five ships. AFP PHOTO / AWAD AWAD (Photo credit should read AWAD AWAD/AFP/***** Images)

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Srifa, LEBANON: Italian soldiers with UNIFIL get settled at a military base near Borj Qalauay in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa 04 September 2006. More Italian troops deployed yesterday in Lebanon as part of the first major reinforcement in nearly 30 years of the UN mission there, to monitor a truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. A convoy of about 30 vehicles including soldiers, fuel tankers, amphibious vehicles and containers, set out for a logistics base to complete the initial deployment from five ships. AFP PHOTO / AWAD AWAD (Photo credit should read AWAD AWAD/AFP/***** Images)

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Srifa, LEBANON: An Italian soldier with UNIFIL stands between tanks at a military base near Borj Qalauay in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa 04 September 2006. More Italian troops deployed yesterday in Lebanon as part of the first major reinforcement in nearly 30 years of the UN mission there, to monitor a truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. A convoy of about 30 vehicles including soldiers, fuel tankers, amphibious vehicles and containers, set out for a logistics base to complete the initial deployment from five ships. AFP PHOTO / AWAD AWAD (Photo credit should read AWAD AWAD/AFP/***** Images)

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Srifa, LEBANON: Italian soldiers with UNIFIL get settled at a military base near Borj Qalauay in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa 04 September 2006. More Italian troops deployed yesterday in Lebanon as part of the first major reinforcement in nearly 30 years of the UN mission there, to monitor a truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. A convoy of about 30 vehicles including soldiers, fuel tankers, amphibious vehicles and containers, set out for a logistics base to complete the initial deployment from five ships. AFP PHOTO / AWAD AWAD (Photo credit should read AWAD AWAD/AFP/***** Images)

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Baikonur, KAZAKHSTAN: A member of Russia's Souyz TMA-9 space vessel crew, US entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist sits in a special lodgement for the space-suit containment control in the assembly-experimental department of Baikonur cosmodrome, 04 September 2006. The flight of the world's first female space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) will be put off by four days and scheduled on 18 September because of delays in launching the US space shuttle. AFP PHOTO / STRINGER (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/***** Images)

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Basra, IRAQ: Danish soldiers and Iraqi policemen stand guard as Danish troops gather around their vehicle near the site of an attack 04 September 2006 in the city of Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. At least two British soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured when insurgents attacked a British army unit escorting a reconstruction team near the city today. The soldiers were traveling in a "snatch Land Rover", an armored version of the British army's standard four-wheel-drive utility vehicle. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/***** Images)

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Basra, IRAQ: A British soldier stands guard as his comrades inspect a "snatch Land Rover" 04 September 2006 in the city of Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. At least two British soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured when insurgents attacked the British army unit escorting a reconstruction team near the city today. The soldiers were traveling in a the Land Rover, which is an armored version of the British army's standard four-wheel-drive utility vehicle. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/***** Images)

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Basra, IRAQ: British and Danish soldiers inspect a "snatch Land Rover" 04 September 2006 in the city of Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. At least two British soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured when insurgents attacked the British army unit escorting a reconstruction team near the city today. The soldiers were traveling in a the Land Rover, which is an armored version of the British army's standard four-wheel-drive utility vehicle. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/***** Images)

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Basra, IRAQ: Danish soldiers transport the body of a fallen British comrade to a helicopter 04 September 2006 in the city of Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. At least two British soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured when insurgents attacked a British army unit escorting a reconstruction team near the city today. The soldiers were traveling in a "snatch Land Rover", an armored version of the British army's standard four-wheel-drive utility vehicle. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/***** Images)

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Basra, IRAQ: Danish soldiers load the body of a fallen comrade to a helicopter 04 September 2006 in the city of Basra, 550 kms south of Baghdad. At least two British soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured when insurgents attacked a British army unit escorting a reconstruction team near the city today. The soldiers were traveling in a "snatch Land Rover", an armored version of the British army's standard four-wheel-drive utility vehicle. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/***** Images)

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Dili, EAST TIMOR: Australian Federal Police (AFP) commisioner Stave Lancaster shows pictures of 56 fugitives who escape from Dili's Becora prison and were accused of sparkling civil unrest in May, in Dili 04 September 2006. East Timor Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta on pleaded with Australia not to reduce its troop commitment to the tiny state, saying international peacekeepers were needed to enforce security. AFP PHOTO/Candido ALVES (Photo credit should read CANDIDO ALVES/AFP/***** Images)

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Baghdad, IRAQ: Black smoke rises over an area of the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad 04 September 2006. Iraqi forces killed 14 "terrorists" and captured almost 200 suspects today in a major operation to clear the outskirts of Baghdad of insurgent fighters, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office said. Maliki's statement said that the raids had taken place in a region south of Baghdad which is mainly inhabited my members of the country's restive Sunni minority and has been a hotbed of the anti-government insurgency. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP/***** Images)

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Baghdad, IRAQ: Police surround the site of a bomb attack in downtown Baghdad in al-Wabhiq square in the largely Shiite and Sunni Karada district 04 September 2006. At least three police officers were critically wounded in the attack. Baghdad is in the grip of a vicious sectarian conflict between rival Sunni and Shiite factions, despite a joint US and Iraqi security operation. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP/***** Images)

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Kirkuk, IRAQ: A file photo shows Iraqi National Guard officers displaying human bones and clothes at the site of a grave site near the northern city of Kirkuk, 21 December 2004. Iraqi security forces found 04 September 2006 in a mass grave the remains of 18 Kurdish men, women and children believed to have been buried alive during the former regime of Saddam Hussein. Colonel Sarhad Kadar of the Iraqi police said the mass grave had been found in Tarkalan 25 kilometres (16 miles) southeast of the northern city of Kirkuk in the grounds of an abandoned military camp dating from the 1980s and 1990s. Estimates of the number of those killed or who disappeared during Saddam Hussein's rule range from 300,000 to over a million. There are about 40 known mass graves in Iraq. AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM (Photo credit should read MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/***** Images)

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Kirkuk, IRAQ: A file photo shows Iraqi National Guard officers displaying human bones and clothes at the site of a grave site near the northern city of Kirkuk, 21 December 2004. Iraqi security forces found 04 September 2006 in a mass grave the remains of 18 Kurdish men, women and children believed to have been buried alive during the former regime of Saddam Hussein. Colonel Sarhad Kadar of the Iraqi police said the mass grave had been found in Tarkalan 25 kilometres (16 miles) southeast of the northern city of Kirkuk in the grounds of an abandoned military camp dating from the 1980s and 1990s. Estimates of the number of those killed or who disappeared during Saddam Hussein's rule range from 300,000 to over a million. There are about 40 known mass graves in Iraq. AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM (Photo credit should read MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/***** Images)

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Panjshir Valley, AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan militia man poses on the turret of a tank T-34 in the Panjshir Valley, some 98 kms (60 miles) north of Kabul, 04 September 2006. In the valley, the last stronghold of the Northern Alliance, authorities have begun locking away tanks and other heavy weapons as part of the country's ongoing drive to disarm private militias. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)

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Kabul, AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan policeman looks at a bomb damaged car on a street in Kabul, 04 September 2006. A suicide car bomb killed a British soldier and four Afghans in Afghanistan's capital, Britain's defence ministry and police said.The blast struck a British patrol on a road in the east of the city that is regularly used by foreign troops and has seen most of the suicide blasts in the city.An officer with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) force initially told AFP four British soldiers had been wounded, two of them seriously. AFP PHOTO/ FARZANA Wahidy (Photo credit should read FARZANA WAHIDY/AFP/***** Images)

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Kathmandu, NEPAL: Disabled Nepalese delegate Sijal gestures as he delivers a speech during a conference in Kathmandu, 04 September 2006. The first National Conference of disabled Maoist guerrillas, injured during a ten year insurgency in the Himalayan state which has claimed in excess of 12,500 lives has taken place in the Nepalese capital. AFP PHOTO/DEVENDRA M SINGH (Photo credit should read DEVENDRA M SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

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Kathmandu, NEPAL: Female Nepalese Maoist Peoples's Liberation Army soldiers hold toy guns as they perform a dance routine during a conference in Kathmandu, 04 September 2006. The first National Conference of disabled Maoist guerrillas, injured during a ten year insurgency in the Himalayan state which has claimed in excess of 12,500 lives has taken place in the Nepalese capital. AFP PHOTO/DEVENDRA M SINGH (Photo credit should read DEVENDRA M SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

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Good thing this officer has been trained to shoot with his sling obscuring his sights. Of all the places to mount a sling he chooses the carry handle.

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[Wamba]

Good thing this officer has been trained to shoot with his sling obscuring his sights. Of all the places to mount a sling he chooses the carry handle.
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Well, based in his weapon choice, doesn't surprise me.

[Switek]

Ok, couple more from Jordan

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*******/Str. Jordanian police guard the Roman Amphitheatre in Amman September 4, 2006. A lone gunman opened fire on a group of foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday, killing a British man and wounding six people, an official and a witness said.

[Wamba]

Thanks for the pics and for your time to post them Switek.

[ranger75bn]

Thanks for the pics and for your time to post them Switek.

x 10..........

[Switek]

You know my friends, all for MPnetters

Israeli soldiers on a search operation in the Palestinian West Bank town of Hebron as a Palestinian student returns home from school early on the third day of a national strike by Palestinian teachers working in state run schools 04 September 2006 EPA ABED AL HAFIZ HASHLAMOUN

Italian soldiers in their new camp in Kalaway south Lebanon Monday 04 September 2006 Eight hundred Italian troops will be deployed for their peace keeping mission in Lebanon While European countries have offered to contribute around 7 000 troops to the force Germany on Sunday 03 September 2006 said it was delaying a decision on sending troops to Lebanon pending a formal request to the United Nations by the government in Beirut EPA MOHAMED MESSARA

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Four Afghan civilians and a British soldier were killed when a suicide bomber hit a NATO convoy on Monday 04 September 2006 in Kabul EPA SYED JAN SABAWOON

[Irish-Fianoglach]

RIP Steve you were a good one !
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